Improvement in earth-chamber vessels



, @attent @Wina GEORGE G. BALDWIN, OF MILFORD, 00NNEGTICT.

Letters Paten-t No; 102,7 50, datfd May 10, 1870.

IMPROTEMENT IN EARTH-CHAMBER VESSELS.

- The Schedule referred to in these Lettera Patent and making part ofthe same enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same,reference being had to'the accompanying drawings forming part of thisspecification.

Figure l represents a vertical longitudinal section of my improvedearth-closet.

Figure 2 is a plan or top view of the same. Similar letters of referenceindicate corresponding parts. lhis invention relates to a newearth-closet, which is so arranged that the person occupying it mayreadily apply the necessary quantity ot' earth, and that the pau orreceptaclec'an be removed and replaced when desired.

The invention 'consists in construct-ing the outer case or chest A ofthe closet in two compartments, a and b, by arranging in `it atransverse partition, c, and

'in hinging or pivoting to the upper part of said parti? tion a chute,B, which serves to-conduct the earth from the compartment a into l).

The pan or receptacle C of the excrements is placed in the compartmentb, the chute reaching far enough into the latter to convey the earthinto the receptacle O.

The earth with which the contents of the pan'are to be covered iscontained in the compartment a, and can, -by means of a suitable shovel,D, be readily conveyed into the chute, and thence'into the pan. l

I provide a sliding seat, E, which rests vupon longitudinal rails d d,that are arranged in the chest. The seat is ordinarily to be above thecompartment b; but when the receptacle Gis to .be removed, to be empftied, the seat is moved over the compartment a, as in iig. 2, and thechute swung up, to allow the ready removal and reinsertion of thepan.

Having thus described my invention,

I claimv as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combinationof the pivoted chute B with the chest A of an earth-closet, the saidchest being, by a partition, C, divided into two compartments, la and b,as set forth.

GEO. G. BALDlVIN.

Witnesses:

ANON CLARK, ELI N. CLARK.

